Note that these entries are part of a series that I am posting after the fact. (Sorry about that: I did not have any time to find a free WiFi spot to even check my email.) Please use the search box in the page header to look for other daily entries about my inaugural travels and activities.

Today marks our departure from Reno to Denver and on to Washington, D.C. On this leg of the trip: myself, my friend Diana, my sister Mishon, and her boyfriend Adam. Reno has been having weird and very rare fog the past few days, hampering flights arriving or departing. Fortunately our flight was scheduled to take off at 6 am, and our plane was already there from the night before. Unfortunately, our flight was to takeoff at 6 am, requiring wake up at 4 am. Ugh. The fog did end up delaying our takeoff for two hours, despite the airplane having fog sensors that can takeoff under such abnormal Reno conditions. Unfortunately, the airport lacked certain equipment to verify visibility at both ends of the runway, which the rules state is necessary in order to allow any plane to leave. Finally, the shroud of fog began to lift, and the control tower cleared us for departure.

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At our layover in Denver, we picked up my two brothers, Cory and Sean Louis, and my dad and step-mom. Whew. Luckily, the delay from Reno to DIA(Denver International Airport) was not so severe as to make us miss this flight, but we definitely had no time to take a breather. Off one plane and onto the next. Starving, I purchased the outrageously priced ($10) salmon caesar salad. Ten bucks really isn’t that much, but when a meal used to be included in the airfare, it seems like a lot. Then again, I hadn’t eaten since the night before, so $10 was an easy choice. (Call me a hypocrite.)

After five hours of flying and nine hours of traveling, our travel posse arrived at Reagan International. We hopped on the metro with our bags, and popped out two blocks from our hotel, “The Lincoln Suites”:http://www.lincolnhotels.com/, on 18th and L Streets. The metro was cheap and convenient. It snowed the previous day in DC, so our bags did roll through all the slush in the streets. Still, we arrived safe and sound without much trouble at our new home for the next week.

I do wish we had taken a picture of ourselves dragging our belongings through downtown DC, as we certainly must have appeared quite touristy and out of place in a funny way. Oh well, I surmise that given my description, you can imagine the lot of us sans photo.

For tomorrow, the day of the inauguration, I will be taking a quick trip up to New York City instead of watching the ceremonies. More on these happenings in my next post.